Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom : China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War / by Stephen R. Platt.
Platt, Stephen R.
2012
DS759 .P57 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom : China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War / by Stephen R. Platt.
Author Platt, Stephen R.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307271730
0307271730
Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Language English
Description xxviii, 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number DS759 .P57 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 951/.034
Summary This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.
Note "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-447) and index.
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Dramatis Personae
Chronology of Major Events
Prologue: Heaven's Children
pt. 1. Twilight
The Preacher's Assistant
Neutrality
The Shield King
Soundings
An Appointment in the North
pt. 2. Order Rising
The Reluctant General
The Force of Doctrine
Perils of Civilization
Endurance
Heaven and Earth
Crossings
pt. 3. The Great Peace
The Point of No Return
Vampires
Flowering Rain
Blood and Honor
Crossing the Mountain
Epilogue.

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